old painting

[rayheinrich]

Agree with Billy spring cannot look into. Someone could perhaps look like spring (as in fresh and new).

which one of the above was the one you originally posted? (just interested to apply comments to right poem)
But I like the idea of your image which made me think ofthe following: The image of the eyes of love looking at an older person and seeing new and fresh beauty there.(sort of rearranged it in my mind I guess> Appoligies for taking the liberty)

The look of you
spring looks in
old painting.

That's a common misunderstanding of the haiku form.
It's true that haiku normally don't contain direct
(i.e. written) similes or metaphors. (Though a few of the
ones below, written by masters, do.) But haiku, taken
as a whole, ARE metaphor. There's no getting around that.
Haiku, by their very essence, are the contrasting of two
things, the surprise of realizing a new connection between
them. These connections ARE metaphor.

Some famous Haiku that do various things you're objecting too:

My life, -
How much more of it remains?
The night is brief.
- Shiki

Over the wintry
forest, winds howl in rage
with no leaves to blow.
- Soseki

Don’t weep, insects –
Lovers, stars themselves,
Must part.
- Issa

autumn winds
in the sliding door's opening
a sharp voice
- Basho

the moon so pure
a wandering monk carries it
across the sand
- Basho

The winter storm
Hid in the bamboo grove
And quieted away.
- Basho

peonies --
hundreds swaying
like a hot bath
MORI Sumio

because he never angers
i tackle him and wring his neck
in the long grass
- SHIMAZU Ryoh

summer grasses——
the wheels of the locomotive
come to a stop
- YAMAGUCHI Seishi

the haiku's sorry
life's not rosy
as the master's fairy story
- Sukasah Syahdan

Under the protection of a big tree,
People's hearts are at rest."
- Taijyu ('big tree' stands for 'the Shogunate')